ISak, Gyökeres and Ekitiké Herald a new era from middle to front Premier League star-news.press/wp

IT has only had a decade since it seemed that the middle was going to be polished from existence. Spain had won EURO 2012 with Cesc Fàbregas in nine false, and Germany, which greatly took Spain as a model, less than convinced that they needed one in the 2014 World Cup. They presented Thomas Muller in nine liar to the quarter -finals, when Jögi Löw finally returned to the basics and turned to Miroslav Klose. It seems that he was thirty-six years old only confirms that the number 9 of the old style was an ancient-style-dying phenomenon. However, the main interest in the transportation market was a carrier for the strikers.

Of course, the multipliers did not disappear completely. The prominent top scorers in the Premier League in 2014-15 were Sergio Aguero, Harry Kane, Diego Costa and Charlie Austin. Morey Icardi and Luka Tony topped the plans in Italy, while Cristiano Ronaldo turned to No. 9, he was a top scorer in Spain (although Lionel Messi and Antoine Griezmann followed him, and Neymar suggested a variety of scorers there).

However, the feeling was that the most intelligent football – the most advanced football – included a central striker there was at least his movement and his ability to link the game as much as it ends. The phenomenon of extensive goals – such as Messi in Barcelona, or Argin Robin in Bayern or Aden Hazard in Chelsea, is a cloak that was seized today by Mohamed Salah, Kylian Mbappe and Rafinha – means targets from a larger group of sources.

But while scoring targets is still, there was a return to acceptance at the highest level of the central striker. Pep Guardiola, the coach who looked more skeptical about the traditional nineties number – was never completely convinced by AGüero – maybe he started when Manchester City signed Erling Haland. The great Norwegian caused City a major modification of her style. He does not join play the way every Guardiola player does. It does not fall into the midfield or withdraw widely – and it is a creative tension that brought three times in its first season in the club, but it may have been a factor in the disappointment of the city last season.

At the same time, the most common criticism of Arsenal was that it lacks the center. They needed to play well to win, because they did not have a player who could swoop in half a chance to steal victory from a tight game, or sometimes turning his good game into goals. Alexander Issak looked very appropriate for them, but a fee of 120 million pounds/140 million dollars or more was not within the scope, so they ended up with VIKTOR GYOKKERES. It is a calculated danger given that he is 27 years old and was only a prolific production in the past four seasons – two in the tournament with Coventry and two in Portugal with sports – but as long as there are fears that it takes a long time to remove him in crowded situations, it seems that it does not exceed a specific need, even if there are preference times in which Kai Hastz in this central role.

Nevertheless, Isaac is the one who stands in the center of great umbrellas. It is long and fast, and its movement is smart, and during the past two seasons he has proven a fixed top scorer in the Premier League. It is understood that Newcastle is very desperate to preserve it, but it is also understood that it feels less than 120,000 pounds per week/6.2 million pounds ($ 8.4 million) per year. He has remained three years in his contract, so besides fear that he can overcome, there is no reason that Newcastle allows him to leave. They can insist on a fee of 140 million pounds or more-definitely enough to buy a high degree alternative, and possibly Benjamin šeško from RB Leipzig.

This makes it strange that Issak was publicly available only after Liverpool Hugo Iteteki, who has a similar profile similar to Issak, but in 23 years old, signed less developed. Chelsea may also be interested in Izak if they had not already bought two positions in Joao Pedro William Dilab. Perhaps, by selling one or both from Darwin Nunez and Louis Diaz, Liverpool could have tolerated it. The signing of a second central striker will be a great step for the club, as one of the main roles of the center for several years was to clarify the way for Salah. This may indicate that the change is coming – Liverpool began preparing for life without goodness, which is, after all, 33.

But Isaac is not an attacker in the old school. Perhaps Alan Shearer was the last line of his line, at least at the elite level in England. From Marco van Pastin onwards, through Andrei Shevchenko and Terry Henry, the attackers have become more able, as he combines the elements of the target man, the men of the canal and hunting. Izak and Joao Pedro have a full set of skills. It is evolved by Ekitiké and šeško. The central striker, with a wide range of features of their ancestors, are suddenly fashionable with football moved to a new era of the striker.

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